29th October 2018, 9:59 PM
(This post was last modified: 31st October 2018, 9:19 AM by A Black Falcon.)
One week to go... one week before we learn if the US will continue to move towards authoritarianism, or stand up to it. Democracy, or the Republican Party? Because with how they've surrendered to Trump, it's hard to see us having both of those things in the future...
I mean, we SHOULD win, in the US House at least, but will it be by enough to overcome the gerrymandering? Probably... but there are no guarantees. Well, people better vote if they want anything to change! Early voting numbers so far are quite high, which is hopefully a good sign, but I'm sure both sides are seeing high turnout given how polarized things are right now in this country, so I hope enough Dems vote to win the races we need to win.
As for Hillary, I voted for her in the caucus in '16, and supported her in '08 though I wasn't able to get to the caucus that year, but yeah, I think we need someone new next time. I certainly can understand why she'd still want to be President -- after all, she won the popular vote and really should be President now -- but I'm sure we have other candidates who could win without the unfortunate mountain of baggage and sexist lies people believe about her. It would be interesting to see how a different female candidate for President did, on that note; Hillary has so much baggage from the decades the Republicans have spent lying about her that she probably ended up more affected by sexism than others would be.
Regardless of who wins for the Democratic nomination though, Democrats need to continue nominating candidates representative of this country as a whole. Our 2020 ticket really should have a woman for President or VP, we have good candidates.
Oh, and apparently one of the reasons why the stock market is going down right now is because Wall Street thinks that Dems are going to win the House, and less will get done because of the divided government. So yeah, tax cuts for the rich? Dow goes up! Wage increases for minimum wage workers? Dow goes down! Ugh... I'm no economist to say the least, but the economy generally does better when Dems are in power than Republicans, you know.
I mean, we SHOULD win, in the US House at least, but will it be by enough to overcome the gerrymandering? Probably... but there are no guarantees. Well, people better vote if they want anything to change! Early voting numbers so far are quite high, which is hopefully a good sign, but I'm sure both sides are seeing high turnout given how polarized things are right now in this country, so I hope enough Dems vote to win the races we need to win.
As for Hillary, I voted for her in the caucus in '16, and supported her in '08 though I wasn't able to get to the caucus that year, but yeah, I think we need someone new next time. I certainly can understand why she'd still want to be President -- after all, she won the popular vote and really should be President now -- but I'm sure we have other candidates who could win without the unfortunate mountain of baggage and sexist lies people believe about her. It would be interesting to see how a different female candidate for President did, on that note; Hillary has so much baggage from the decades the Republicans have spent lying about her that she probably ended up more affected by sexism than others would be.
Regardless of who wins for the Democratic nomination though, Democrats need to continue nominating candidates representative of this country as a whole. Our 2020 ticket really should have a woman for President or VP, we have good candidates.
Oh, and apparently one of the reasons why the stock market is going down right now is because Wall Street thinks that Dems are going to win the House, and less will get done because of the divided government. So yeah, tax cuts for the rich? Dow goes up! Wage increases for minimum wage workers? Dow goes down! Ugh... I'm no economist to say the least, but the economy generally does better when Dems are in power than Republicans, you know.